Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Mount O'Links

From the Laurel Hill ConnectionPaul VI on a RollThe Paul VI boys basketball team improved its record to 7-0 with three road wins in three days last week. These wins include a come-from-behind victory over Washington Catholic Athletic Conference foe, St. Mary's Ryken, along wins over Trinity Christian (N.C.) and the host Christ Church School, which helped the Panthers take home the John Stone Memorial Basketball Tournament title. Against St. Mary’s, Paul VI closed on a 17-2 run and came away with a 58-51 win. Less than 24 hours later, the Panthers posted a 65-55 win over Trinity Christian, which has made the North Carolina state semifinals five of the last six years. Blake Bozeman knocked down six 3-pointers against Trinity. The Panthers finished the tournament on Saturday with a 73-57 victory over Christ Church, courtesy of 25 points from Erick Green and several strong dunks by Raven Barber and Eugene McCrory.

About thefanblog

The Mount FanBlog is hosted by Ryan Raffensperger a CPA in Gettysburg, PA - Raffensperger, Martin & Finkenbiner, LLC . The firm was started by his father, a Mount grad, and has served customers in SouthCentral PA and Northern Maryland for 40+ years.

The younger Raffensperger has loved the Mount as long as he can remember, which basically means 1981 - and remembers the true #GloryDays of Memorial Gym. He remembers the players from those days to the athletes who play at Knott Arena today. And if it's a #MountMayhem day, it's going to be a good day.

He holds a Syracuse University degree in broadcast journalism. He has broadcast high school, college & minor league of all sports in his past, and regularly covered high school football for his home town paper. So the blog does make a little sense.

The blog was at one point much more active, but the advent of Twitter (follow @themountfanblog) has made writing a little less important. But he hopes that the balance swings back in favor of more traditional content soon.